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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1908)
.i vvr'yrWrW" "WIF """V r if DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM, OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 80, 100B. Salem Industries and Business Enterprises IK V ' r .1 it I 'H :! 8' is K. If! I L.v l i V I .. Ii I1 1 f;- r V; i . ?! ti FORWARD MARCH IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Work Done for Practical Progress for the Education of the Masses The Journal man hns run across more county tonclicrB' Institutes this your In his travels than you can shako the big stick nt. Nearly every town of any size, tho pnst month, hns had an Institute grinding out lec tures, classes In mental anatomy and social and political economy, and nearly overywhoro I meet men llko Stato Supt. Ackerman, County Sunt. Robinson. What was still worst of all, at Corvallis Rov. J. It. N. Bell, tho Presbyterian Dell Wether, was on tho program and introduced tho scribo to an aero of school ma'ams. Fortunntoly, they woro mostly veter ans in the calling nnd past tho easily Impressionable stage and wo dnred talk to them. Nothing but a wise provision of nnturo makes it safe to turn thrco such men as Ackerman, Robinson and Bell looso at Institutes, for they aro all thrco hopelessly and harmlessly homoly. Wo got along fino. But what Jobs aro thoso gon tlomcn putting up on tho pcoplo of this stato only futuro generations can tell. At Corvallis tho local tcachors gavo a reception at tho First Metho dist church, whore wo nil appeared In duo form and boosted for better schools. Ackerman has boon nt It u long time. So hns Robinson. Their works live nftor thorn. Ackerman can bonst of tho best set of school laws In tho United Stntes, and Rob inson can boast of tho best organized county system in tho state, and still thoy aro not satisfied. Ackcrnmii Talks Progress. Aukormnn did not seem to bo afraid to talk progress and advocat ed so mo radical departures, In splto of tho fact that ho Is charged with having aspirations to becomo gover nor, not only of Oregon educational interests but to Include tho rest of tho commonwealth under his Juris diction. Ho ndvocatos the rights of tho country boys and girls to have Just as good public schools as the city kids and kldosses. To bring this about ho ndvocatos doing away with nil school boards except In first class districts, and Instead have ono school board of flvo for tho wholo county, who aro to solect tho county super intendent Just as tho city school board selects tho city superintendent. This ono school board would hlro all tho school teachers In tho coun try schools, build and repair all tho school houses and through tho coun ty superintendent nnd assistant su pervisors, hnvo gonornl supervision of tho city schools. Ho wants a county Instructor In ngrlculturo at $1000 to $1200 a year, to visit all tho country schools nnd toach elomontnry ngrl culturo. Ho wants a teachor of do mestic science at $1000 or $1200 a year to visit tho country schools and toach cookery nnd needlework. Tho county or tho stato shall bo tho unit of tnxatlon instead of tho district ns now. Instond of $7 por cnplta ho ndvocatos tho California plan of $420 a yonr por tonchor omp'oyod. Ho would hnvo tho room, or na many rooms ns hnvo ono teachor, rocolvo $420 por room, nnd do away with tho threo nnd four months school in many poor country districts. To raise money for this ho would put nil tho monoy now raised by In direct taxes into tho gonoral school fund. That now amounts to about $2 por capita. Thoso aro progressive Ideas and Stato Supt. Ackormnn foar lossly advocates thorn boforo county Institutes and public nudlonces wher ever ho goos. They cannot but pro duco a markod offoct nnd would rov olutlonlzo tho prosont system whore by tho high class public schools aro in tho cltlos nnd towns and tho low . class schools aro In tho country. VMts tho O. A. C. A Journnl roprosontatlvo spout a day at tho Orogon Stuto Agricultural Collogo this week and whs surprised to find such great chnnget, and mark od Improvements made during the paat eur. He hardly knew the place. The old dingy library has given way to suite of business offices, the registrar's office, the bookkeeping and accounting depiytiueiit. Theio In h noat college book store where stu dent got texts for 15 per cent let than the retail price. Tho nurar Is now on the second floor, in charge of Mrs. Kidder. The library has been enlarged. classified, organized and made available. Mrs. Kidder Is a wholo team and load mule whuu It comes to working a library to its full capacity. Tho shops aro tho biggest thing at tho Corvallis collogo since they were beaten at football. Klrst tlioro Is a bang-up little prlntshop under Mas ter Printer Koady. Has two Job presses, a Mlohlo and a flno lot of Job matorlal. Thoy turn out stacks of bulletins nnd reports that go to all tho progressive farm homos. Tho wood-working dopartmont starts with a locturo room and ends lu a furnlturo factory. Tho boys plan construction, make drawings, got out tho matorlnl, nssomblo It and then finish It. Thoy mako tables, lockors, bureaus, and hat racks. They aro making furnlturo for tho now Y. M. C. A. building and domestic sclonce department. In roturn the joung women will mako carpenters aprons for tho wood butchers. The boys loam to use wood working ma chinery. Four classes of 40 to 50 students onch tuko tho two-hour per iods In carpentry based upon mechan ical' drawing. A smiling young mnn named Jackson is promoter of the jack-plnno industry. In tho metal-working machine shops I found a bunch of young latho workoiB clustered around n young genius herder named Knoff like a swarm of bees. Ho was showing them soma flno point about a bit of ma chinery that made It Imposslblo for tho man with tho noto book to attach tho slightest attention and ho left in disgust. If students In tho Iron works becomo so nbsorbed in cutting nnd drilling stool, whnt is going to become of Latin, geometry, trigo nometry, and other oducatlonnl standbys that havo passed for wisdom among tho ancients? In tho blnckstnlth shops wo found about forty young disciples of Vulcan who scorned to dollght In breathing coal smoko, smelling fire, pounding anvils, and a boss Vulcan directing thorn named Portor. Ho Is a practi cal blacksmith nnd horseshoor with hands as big as John L. Sullivan's but putting thorn to far hotter use. Tho old Bhop Is being turned Into a mining laboratory. Another now building Is tho $18, 000 collogo Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A .building. It was built by tho students nnd faculty and outsldo friends nnd Is named Shcpard hall. This will also bo headquarters for tho student body literary societies. Tho now Agronomy building cost ing $30,000 finished, Is thrco stories with heating plnnt in tho bnsomont. Southwlck & Hendrlck, two peerless Salem bummers, put It up and It is Just about ns protty and perfect ns thoy mako thorn. Tho brick walls of the three stories aro 20 Inches, 10 Inches and 12 Inches, with concroto caps and sills nnd a concroto wnter tablo all around. Tho brick aro mado at Corvallis. Thoy mako brick at Corvallis and thoy aro protty good brick for a dry town. Tho second story of this building 1b devoted to domestic science nnd a commercial dopartmont. President Kerr has mado great progross nt tho collogo with now barns finished last March, now shops, now library, now department tiftor dopartmont. Ho hns dono wondors with tho mentis nt hand. Thoro is a now spirit in scientific ngrlculturo lu Oregon. o THOMAS KAY WGOLEN, MILLS CO Capital City's Big Factory Tho Thomas Kay Woolen Mill wns founded In this city In 1889 by Thomas Kay and nssoclates, Mr. Kay being chosen president nnd manager of tho institution, and ho retained thoso positions for years, practically conducting the business until the time of his death In 1DO0, In a man ner that brought credit and wealth to the corporation nnd established It tho Salem factory in the many years of Its oxlstenco In this city. Tho offlcors of the company nt thlH'tlmo are: President, Thos. B. Kay; vice president, Squlro Farrar; Hocrotary-troasurcr, 13. J. Swafford; directors, T. B. Kay, Squlro Farrar, A. N. Bush, of Salem: J. K. Weathor- ford, of Albany, and O. P. Coshow, of Roseburg. o I sold from 40 ncres In 1007 a variety of fruits, for $3121, only paying out $150 for lubor, outsldo tho family. Alsa hay, $180, outsldo $100; poultry and eggs, $7C; totnl, $3029. J. F. Jones, lit. 5, Salem. Off my bearing cherry and pruno orchards (for tho season of 1907) off a trlflo loss than 40 ncres, In cluding some green pruncB I bought of my nolghbors and dried on my drier, nt the samo tlmo I was drying my own crop, I realized $14,000, of which no por cent wns net profit. S. P. Kimball, Salem. vBv3v2i I&31 sl 9$9fct??nElB!: Fc Ml Ji? H Jri LJ H.VZMjhSlJjMH g BBMf . wwfftTTWi ' J "ini. AiUH SHU EtB '(B V ? !uhbhhhbbV 1EIBtS5i!5lHHHHHl(SHHHtBtBEIHBHHHHHHHHHK4 ItKSIDKXrK OK A. X. MOORKS. A MEW HOTEL IS PLANNED FOR SALEM Thoro Is grent need of a now and up to duto hotol nt Snlom, nnd n locnl combination of capitalists aro having plans mado to provldo such a necessity for n growing city. Un doubtedly n now hotol building nt Salem would mnko ono of tho best investments that can bo found In that lino In tho west. Tho reasons for this nro very apparent. Salem Is tho largest city botweon Portland nnd Sacramento. It Is tho capital of Oregon, nnd beautifully locntod In tho rich Willamette valloy. It has this yoar added ovor 300 now rosldoncos in tho city, bosidos as many moro round about, nnd now thoro is a demand for still moro. Also tunny now bustnoss buildings hnvo gono up, nnd thoro Is not a vacant ono to bo had. Our hotels aro crowded with busi ness and tho truth is wo havo room for a moderate sized first class hoo tolry to accommodate the largo high grade tourlBt and commercial trado. Snlom hns 17.000 neonlo and is growing moro rapidly than nny plnco'1. on tho coast. A groat advertising campaign Is on for tho wholo Orogon country, and tho Capital City, with its location on tho Harrlman system of railroads, with a suporlor Interur ban toad to Portland, ns well ns river transportation tho yoar round, will always be In tho wake of hoa travel. Besides being the capital, with Its legislatures, supreme court and pub lic officials, Salem has under the law the public Institutions of tin state, such as the asylums, peniten tiary, reform school, school for deaf, school for the blind, and Institute for the feeble minded, also the larg est Indian training school In the west. r Ul iiH one of tho most popular indus trial concerns In tho Willamette vnl-loy. The first wns a two-set mill with fourteen looms. This was destroyed by flro in 1S95 nnd the present plant was built in 189G, much larger than the original mill, and to this tins' boon added from time to time, until now thoro nro thirty-two looms, tho mill having far moro than double tho capacity of tho rirst plant. Tho business Is, and has always boon, conducted up to the full capacity of tho mill, oxcopt for a short Interval between the flro of 1S9G nnd tho erection of tho present excellent plant. T. B. Kay succeeded his father as president nnd manager of tho fac tory and7 has very acceptably con ducted tho plant from that time to tho prosent day. Tho factory makes all classes of woolen goods manufactured on tho Pacific coast blankets, -flannels, robes, cashmeres, otc. and Its out put Is In tho neighborhood of $250, 000 a year, which Is disposed of par tially in tho East and partially In STANDARD LIQUOR COMPANY Northwestern Shiveftjj k-"-UMT0uuc(s wei im racmc toast ThlB modern plant manufactures all sizes and stylcB required on tho mnrkot, from tho baby range, with an 8-lnch oon to tho mammoth hotol nd restaurant tangos, both In portable and brick-sot styles In sizes from 4 feet to 10 feet, also cast and steel cook stoves, nnd nlr-tlght hoators of tho latest patterns for conl and wood, in nil saleable styles i ud sizes. Chicago and Royal Polished Steel Kaiigcs. Wo deslro pur Mou lt rly to call your at- cution to our Chica go and Roynl Pol bhed Steel Rnnges, in sizes 8, 18, 20, 22 ind 2 l-lnch ovens. Wo conslder tills range superior to nny , ihat was over traduced in the Vc st for Western fuel, nnd at a prlco Althln tho roach of We uo i ot mako his contention sim ply because we tnan- ifacturo them, but because our ranges havo been tried and tested, and measuro up to what Is claimed for them. Wo know whon wo make this statement that wo aro not slm- tilv ilolnir ho t ii if I ii tr only our Bales for the pnst yenr to conl to wood only rtqtliv si !'. ? ?-i M Does a State Wide Business One of Salem's Important business establishments nnd one that Is bring ing a largo amount of business to this city, Is the wholesnlo hotiso of tho Standard Liquor Company, lo cated at 14S-15G Commercial street, of which A. G. Magers is tho presi dent nnd general mutingor. Thlu business wns established fifteou years ago, and from that time to Mils has received a sonorous patronage not only from tho liquor moil of this city hut from thoso In all parts of the state, and tho business has stend- lttlH uaso our claim on, nut wo uo uo because wo hnvo beon manufacturing theso ranges for ovor twenty yonrs, a fact in Itself sufficient to warrant what wo claim for them. During all those years, wo havo beon moro than successful with our Chicago nnd Royal Polished Stcol Ranges, and It has constantly been our aim to mako this ran go a little bettor each year than we mado It tho yenr boforo, by adding an Im provement hero and an Improvement thoro, until today wo are prepared to put this range lu competition with nny rango sold throughout tho West for economy In fuel nnd oven baking. TUB BLLu.0 STBKIi In our Chi cago and Royal ranges Is tho genu ine Lccchburg Bluo, making the handsomest finish that Is posniblo on nny stool pinto. During tho procoss of polishing tho stcol, It is handled In oil, nnd Is shipped to us from tho rolling mills covored with oil, which preBorves tho colors from all ex posures in shipping nnd whilo being workod Info tho rango. Whon you recolvo tho rango It will havo a coat ing of oil ovor tho surface which should bo romovod with a soft cloth. As soon ns this Is dono, tho hand somo color producod by tho procoss which it is put through at tho mills will at onco bo brought to sight. oVENS Squaro with full oponlng. admitting n pan ns largo as the oven slzo. Tho ovons nro deop, high and wldo. Tho baking feature Is com mondnblo for tho rollablllty Mint can bo placed I" io iip-io-iuo consw, -" pBt 0B a lion, tho wans oi ine uvuu mu umuv - - - ...- d wa:s heavy, and tho walls, roof and hot- range Pg ton, are .hold Immovably In Pto'iSrffti ? overcomo in imwu J '"-""" , a'IllirllBieed from unequni oxpansiou. in uc" ",""; m0 bottom Is oxtra woll uracou vent bitckllnir. sagging or K1KB U7w WO nave hihiivh "" ...i.ii usiltlnc Ti' ther time nor expense In making the. rangj wl lie , B flro box of our Chicago ami itojai ranires as nonrly perfect as possible Wo U80 tho Improved Duplox grate fni. Imrnlnc colli (IP WOOll. lilt- ... .....xi nn.i n piiniise from rnnges ! V V M ,.-- tho end linings, ud i or wood as fuel, thtnai results may bo obulcd I the grnto n halt ton, bi into tho pan wlot II II V (if Ihn flro ' "'" ",v J IIODY-Full Hull bid anu (loptn Madeotu Stool shaped to tucti and fully bolted and r Jilt. Full she ultui door under oren, Itmrti 'llto most concnleituWJ nod rango bodr derW TUB LINING of UnWic throughout the Inttrintfhi Uononth this and tlmi n heavy sheet of atba'j,iti non-conductor oi nutm tho heat In the racjt U&ii of Clio oven NICKEI, TRIMMLCW ol trimmings look like ft uso the best of mittriu ni ko through a plckllntpaws1! are placed In tbep!cklli(iM taken out and matt ai brush, then taken to U mi Uhlng machine asipcawW a smooth surface, uhc Aftnr couner nlitltf. tt) tlwm rrailv for tlckelltfc tti bolng thoroughly sltWttftJ buffed to a nign bum. "j parts on our Cnlcitf irnngos nre as iw" donr under orea. wp' doorknobs, fire box Joa hnndlo on oven door Summing up the & n jv aj Toplpalrsatamoment. warping j not have to wit fc', 'eTet!tl,9 East, and IJJ" uic mi -- ..... ..i.um numlty In w,mt;J Haruwaro ip- - , ji whero you cau - ovorlooked )i w ci" fl IIM'IV Ol' DR. ROBI.KTSON. CUMMINS BROTHERS )!. tsliitigtd i . m.1 i liiiMitia iin- ( iu,.tii un if ii t Mm in.ii 1 Hilh is Ut UOOl H M .(!, lllUh! of this ruw mateilul Ijct.ik puivh ised In II Increased since It was founded until tuda it Is ono of tho loading establishments of r.ie kind on the coast. In the two years Just passed. Oregon and u goodl) part of It. In the ! the business of the house has more than, doubled onch yoar, and ovorj month shows an increase in tho pat . -. a a - a i 1 v vfjwi InAlMohttt UUIVlrMlMI Wlllainotte valley, thus making a I convenient home market for the out- .,,,, put of the sheepmen of this part of rills business was established three I the state. Tho payroll of the coin- years ago uy tteuuen u. uumuuiib. Vwo jears o the buslnehs was en largod by taking I). I,. Cummins as partner, and the firm ndded contract ing and suppllng building materials Thoy havo a flno lot of drays nnd teams and furnish snnd, gravol, co ntent, lime and plastor In large or sniHll quantities on short notion. TluMr place of buslnoss is uaxt door to tho Capital Commission Com pany on South Commercial lreou OLD , P0ST0FFICE GROCERY This woll known establishment In tho Turner block Is popular both with city and country trade. Tho iroprlotor Is J. M. Lawrence, who has been connected with the business for fifteen years. Ho had as patt nors J. W Hnrrltt for twelve years md Jos. Baker for two years. Mr. Lawrence prldos hlmsolf on his popularity with all good house keepers and continues to deserve heir good will by furnishing honest jood8 at fair prices and give the people every accommodation possible pnny in this city is fully ?Gu,uou a ear nnd the computo spends large sums of money lu addition for sup plies and raw materials of all de scriptions, making the Institution one of tho most profitable to the indus trial llfo of Mils community. Pay day at the woolen mills is an event looked forward to by tho buslnoss mon or the city monthly with a good deal of pleasure, for tho money thus sent Into tho local ohannols of trade Is no Inconsiderable pnrt of tho cir culating medium in Salem nnd vi cinity. Institutions of the kind of the woolen mills are of great value to a city llko Salem. They give employ- ronsjie received by the houso. Whon the firm established n wholesale house hero It was freely prodlctod that It would not 'uo nn entire sue oess, but front the first tho patron nge recolved and the square dealing of tho management brought rich to turns, and the business grow until toduy goods aro shipped by the com pany from this cuy to every part of Orogon and to some of tho cities in adjoining states, and tho demand Is steadily growing. Ono of tho lines worthy of special montlou is tho majl order depart ment, to which especlnl attention and care is given by the management. This dopartmont of the business has grown until It has uecome very prof itable, and tho care with which It Is j of the business, which ho Is develop I lug Into ono of the best In the state, and he is especially interosieu u .hc ...nil m-ilni flmini'tniHnt. which, ll Hutu j, . v.. .w, -...---- . .ii. snys, has grown to oven greater pru- , portions than ho had hoped for when ' My bops yielded - this ond of the buslnoss was lnaugu- ucr on went) acm rtod. ,,, .m. ?" ,,res cinfl Tho houso today sells every uyw uouguv - -- , In tho city nt w hoiosaio, anu i" iia.uuu. - r j i'ro fow .Llors in Mto Willamette Thomas ? man. valley wno .are nui iuuw '".'.iumiu ik-- Salem wholesale liquor house All tho loading domostlc and lin- nortod wlnos nro nanuieu ut ", .: --v- f h0jej. house, as are Imported nnd uomssiw, oou puu inn.ii.icr iirniifiii UBiiiis Air.isu . .ibd "- luuwiuii " - .- --.... hoDS f- ness with any mertt.- HOl's. wnrtv ncres u00atl3HcenU Kola. . My BU-acrc ur & i" mom io a most rospectauio number i handled hns resulted In tho trado of people who have homos In the I onco established bolng held without city and help mako up the social life ! difficulty. From every nart of Ore- ar a placo, and those of the woolen fson mall orders In large numbers mill aro among tho very best part of tho community. There Is a perfect are received dally by tho firm nnd an are uueu immediately on receipt accord botweon the employes of the so that no delays In shipment can mill ana tue innnageniont, nnd In-, be charged to the house, which prides dustrlnl disturbances with the man-1 Itself on prompt filling of orders as lgament and the operatives of the , well as on the quality of the goodP mill prrnyod against each other aro sent out. President Magers gives and havo beon entirely unknown in his entire tlmo to the management lln..n..n Hm -.,u.0, -'-",,-.. the Mvjoungnop' -- j. Kepi in sioch., iiiiiiuiui " - , . rKnn nounds p" bust known to the trade, are supplied l 1500 pou" from the large u-renouses - oa,r,e hve acres oi s-r., company, and tho brands of clgnrV aene w ,,, , carried for the wholesale traue " "mi Sld for TerStrf nf tho mmlltv and In as great n- and so a w. nfit& rlety as thoso to be found In the l'" P0""" BDd t; i' ' . ta whniPRnla clear housos '9 cents ?. icr'1 'Mr. Mngers. tho pre.Wt and PJ, manager of tho company, Is he son R. M.J ...nn.in,,t nimiPftr family nnu I ,ocrreslrr , has be'en In and near this city all his FWJ clorer life, where he established a renuta-, J.n ,,, 0 for J tlon for fair ueauug u -. y tterW -:,. rf w tentlon to business mai i''V""' this I curea i " teniion io uubiii.do h.v -. , ft,tg j cureu rPsnnnRlblfl for his SUCCeSS in bUSl Ull der (jjl ness. Ho began his business career Nu eAt 1 .. n. i.nnm ri.nn- nt the adder in i f" . ,hreshed '..ai ".".l"rt """" " r;;n7 vears ago and , mueu . - f e.;"u" srs '.jtsrsrssv i uauiieB hub iii ....- -- nnw i and " ,,i, vr ,i the business circles of the city n"w.ianoweet BVf ,vi occupied by him. Ho counts n , ie friends among the best people of the a d j It. Ir city and state, a factor not to ueiur m
